Nibs Price, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nibs Price

American football and basketball coach

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1889

Place of Birth: Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1968

Profession: basketball coach, baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Clarence Merle "Nibs" Price (April 26, 1889 – January 13, 1968) was an American football and basketball coach.
After coaching at San Diego High School, he served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1926 to 1930, compiling the a record of 27–17–3, and the head men's basketball coach at Berkeley from 1924 to 1954, tallying a mark of 453–294.
He led the 1946 basketball team to the Final Four.
Succeeding Andy Smith as Cal's football coach, Price guided the Golden Bears to the 1929 Rose Bowl, a game infamous for Roy Riegels's wrong-way run.
His 1926–27 basketball team finished the season with a 17–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.
Price died on January 13, 1968, at the age of 77 in Oakland, California.